Is there a way to stop/block/disable assignment comments from students & parents? I use comments one way (from me) and expect students to see me personally with assignment questions.
@carrie_marusich Unfortunately, there is no way to limit students from making comments on assignments. It looks like there are a couple feature ideas for this that you may want to follow:
The links above no longer seem to work since they migrated to the a new platform. But I agree that the ability to disable comments in assignments (or anywhere in Canvas) needs to be available and not on by default.
@karen_bowden …
Yup, if you hover over those two links from @james_whalley's above response, you'll see in part of the URL that those are coming from the previous Ideas space in the Canvas Community site. In taking a look at Your Community, Refreshed - Instructure Community, the last paragraph under Your Voice, Your Community says that all of our ideas have been saved and organized, and nothing has been lost. So, we'll need to wait for the Community team to reveal their new process for Ideas, but I'm not exactly sure when that will happen.
Hope this helps in some way.
With the new SpeedGrader UI, we are seeing student names appear in the page title even when the “Hide student names” setting is enabled. When using Classic Quizzes, there is no option within the quiz settings to enable anonymous grading, so we rely on instructors using the hide student names setting in SpeedGrader to…
Has anyone had a chance to try this with a Canvas quiz? Seems it may have a similar effect as ChatGPT Atlas able to provide all the answers to an open Quiz. https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/microsoft_adds_a_sidepane_for/
When you are creating a quiz and/or also reviewing a quiz in Canvas after the class has taken it, the questions aren't numbered so after you get past the first few questions, there is no way to even tell what number you are on. Can someone change that?
Speedgrader chaning file name when being downloaded. Speedgrader: When downloading a submitted assignment, the file name is being changed to an unrecognizable name — (Student's actual name was part of the file name — changed for privacy.) Ideas???
We are all familiar with the standard Course Calendar, where assignment due dates are automatically added. However, at my institution, we structure our assignments as Challenges that develop over a period of time, rather than just a single deadline. Currently, the calendar only highlights the "end point." It would be a…
